Improvement in sacks



J. H. TITUS. Sack.

No. 212,071. Patented Feb. 4, I879.

N.FETERS. FHOTO-UTHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JOHN H. TITUS, OF LAKE CITY, COLORADO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SACKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 212,071, dated February 4, 1879; application filed September 23, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. TITUs, of Lake City, in the county of Hinsdale, State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sacks, of whichthe following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide for an improved sack for the keeping and carryin g of ore.

The present-used sacks are made of duck, very heavy duck being avoided, as the sack is sewed up at the mouth or opening each time it is filled with ore, and this cannot be readily done with either heavy duck, leather, or rawhide, which would, however, be preferable, on account of the many sharp and cutting edges in the ore. Then, too, this sewing up of the sack each time is expensive and injures it by the repeated cutting open and sewing together again.

In order to be able to make sacks of a stronger material than light ducksuch as heavy duck, leather, or rawhides, which will last longer than sacks made of light material and to obviate the expense and time lost in cutting open and sewing the sack together again, I place inside of the sack, near the openin g or mouth, a mouth-piece, made of light canvas or duck, or any other suitable material, which is secured permanently to the sack by sewing it thereonto or fastening it to the same by rivets. This mouth-piece is provided with a rope or strong string, placed inside of a seam or through a series of eyelets in such a manner that the mouth-piece can be closed by pulling the ends of the rope together after the ore is placed in the sack, after which the mouth-piece is folded down into the sack, so that the latter may itself be closed by straps and buckles, or any other strong convenient fastenin gs readily adjustable.

In order to more fully describe my invention, I refer to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure I is a front elevation of my improved ore-sack. Fig. II is a front view, representing the sack with outstretched mouth-piece; and Fig. III is a sectional view of the sack when closed.

A is the sack, with straps b and buckles O. D is the mouth-piece, fastened at g g to the sack A, and provided with the rope or string f at the top, for the purpose of closing the mouth-piece when required.

Having thus described my invention, I desire to claim The mouth-piece or inner cover D, fastened to the inner wall of the bag, near its upper end, as described, and provided at the top with the running strings f, in combination with the sack A, having fastening-straps b and buckles O, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN H. TITUS.

Witnesses:

ANDREW J. Brass, ADAM GEBERT. 

